The creative things that I did always have an influence
on the software products that I created. Ten years ago I started with
digital video editing, then concentrated on graphics design and in the
previous few years focused on photography. Now I finally created a new
web site for presenting my photos and photographic stuff to the public.
Of course, some of the photos were edited with PhotoWiz plugins and they
gave me ideas for new products or improving my existing plugins. I hope
you will like the new web site. See below for the URL.

I hope you will enjoy this issue of the newsletter!

Wishing you a Nice Christmas Season,
Harald Heim

http://www.thepluginsite.com

NEW PHOTO WEB SITE: www.HaraldHeim.com
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I designed another web site for displaying my photos and placing my photographic
articles. The biggest section of the web site contains photos that I have
taken from 2000 up to now. But I have many more photos, which will be
uploaded there in future.

There is also a newsletter option for information
about future web site updates and a guest book. I would appreciate any
comment that you enter there. The web site is available in English as
well as German language. So far there is only one article there, but I
plan to add more, especially about enhancing and retouching photos in
Photoshop.

You can visit the web site at
http://www.haraldheim.com/

POLL RESULTS: Which DSLR camera do you use?
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More than 1300 people voted for the DSLR camera that they use. Here are
the results:

Please note that the Minolta and Kodak DSLRs were
not included in the poll, because they are not produced anymore. One mistake
that I made was not to have a Nikon D70(s) item and to have it included
in the "Other Nikon DSLRs" item. I nevertheless added it in
the results with an estimated value of 7 to 8%, which was extracted from
the 11% value of the "Other Nikon DSLRs" item. There were also
13% of votes from people who don't have a DSLR.

As you can see from the results more than two thirds
of all used DSLRs are from Canon and Nikon and one third of all used DSLRs
are the Canon 30D and 400D/Rebel XTi and their predecessors.

For more poll results, please visit the Know-How section
at
http://thepluginsite.com/knowhow/

NEW POLL: Which is your favorite technique for selectively
adjusting a photo?
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Recently I have noticed that different people prefer different techniques
for selectively enhancing a photo. So I thought it would be nice to do
a poll and see which is liked best by most people. In this poll you can
choose between 7 alternatives. I understand that some people will use
more than just one of these techniques, but you can only vote for one
of them. So please choose the one that you use most of the time or like
best.

Carl Berger wrote: "There is a new public group
in flickr for LightMachine users. Share your LightMachine adjusted images,
join the discussions and spread the word..."
http://www.thepluginsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2399

kade wrote: "since yesterday my photoshop doesn't
start. at the begining everything is normal but when it start to read/load
the global textresources it is hanging up"
http://www.thepluginsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2345

gyllingdk wrote: "I'm looking for a fast solution
to mirror fonts on my advertising banners. Is there a free plugin which
will make a mirror of tekst (vertikal)?"
http://www.thepluginsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2417

olias32 wrote: "I was wondering if anyone knows
a good replacement for the default adobe color picker within photoshop
(on WINDOWS)... The features that i really need are color wheel, harmonies
and a automatic color palette generator."
http://www.thepluginsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2398

pfgbel47 wrote: "With long exposure times, I
get of course hot pixels in my pics and I'm looking for a plugin I could
add to my PhotoShop 6.0 which could help me to remove these numerous hot
pixels."
http://www.thepluginsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2388

Tim4Peace wreote: "I have Photoshop 7. Is there
a plugin available to make straightening of an image easy?"
http://www.thepluginsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2386

Jerry Noftsger wrote: "I lost an Elements plugin
that allowed one to deform photos. It was a simple program... A tool bar
runs down the left side of the screen. It's two primary "buttons"
were one to blow-up/expand the selected area, and one to shrink/deflate
the selected area. ... Can someone perchance tell me what the name of
that program is?"
http://www.thepluginsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2358

Conurg1958 wrote: "I have a compositing job to
do that requires a background which is stitched together from about 5
photos... Now for the tricky bit - I need to keep the central image totally
intact with only the other four warping to align with its various features.
So far, Photomerge will only work by warping all five images to get a
result. Anyone have any ideas on how I might get what I'm looking for...
?"
http://www.thepluginsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2416

The free 8bf plugin collection (for Windows) has been
extended with two new plugins. The Single Hue plugin lets you change the
hue and saturation of your image and the Granularity plugin adds monochrome
grain to your image. Additionally the Foto Fix from the collection plugin
was updated.

Imagenomic released two new plugins for Photoshop
and Elements called RealGrain and Portraiture (for Mac/Win). RealGrain
simulates grain patterns and the look of film grain. Portraiture removes
imperfections in portrait shots while retaining important picture details.

http://www.imagenomic.com/

Human Software now sells a package with more than 50 calendar templates
for Photoshop and Elements (for Mac/Win). You can change the size, font
size and color or style in these templates and ad your own images,

http://www.humansoftware.com/

Adobe released Version 3.6 of the Camera Raw plugin and DNG converter
version (for Win/Mac).13 new cameras from Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Fujifilm,
Leica, Panasonic, Pentax and Samsung are supported.

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw/

The Retina plugin package (for Windows) from XtraSens offers 22 filters
and functions for enhancing perceived contrast, brightness, sharpness,
depth and resolution. There are automatic as well as manual plugins for
processing various types of photos.